‘Is Life Possible?’ (feat. Les Trucs) by Mary Ocher | New Album, ‘Approaching Singularity: Music for The End of Time’
‘Is Life Possible?’ is the new single by Mary Ocher, featuring Les Trucs, taken from the upcoming album, ‘Approaching Singularity: Music for The End of Time,’ out November 3rd via Underground Institute.
Experimental political pop artist Mary Ocher returns with ‘Approaching Singularity: Music for The End of Time’ a musical tour-de-force examining the collective dread of our impending future. The album is released alongside an essay (short version) on authoritarianism, and the various political and ethical implications of surveillance and artificial intelligence.
First single, ‘Is Life Possible?’ borrows its title from Judith Butler’s “Undoing Gender” – and refers to the inequality in the value of different lives, the increased trust in technology, and accordingly, surveillance measures. Recorded together with Les Trucs, it’s released 8th September with the video directed by Mary, starring Mats Folkesson and Theo Taylor, the song references Judith Butler’s question “What lives are worth living?”
The album is a stunning run through the history of experimental and electronic music, and exploration through minimalism, via field recordings, ambient, dub, cosmic music, psych folk, minimal synthesizer pieces, sound experiments and various uses of sampling techniques. As an avid music collector, Mary enjoys curating albums like compilations, where each track sounds different – that’s also how she mainly listens to music these days, track by track. These recordings reveal further layers with each listen.
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